Cecilia Kang reports: The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday it is investigating a data breach by Google, whose Street View mapping cars scooped up e-mail addresses and passwords from unencrypted residential Wi-Fi networks. “Last month, Google disclosed that its Street View cars collected passwords, e-mails and other personal information wirelessly from unsuspecting people across the…
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Pennsylvania homeland security office, private consultant monitored citizens, compared activists to Al Qaeda
Donald Gilliland has dug into the outrageous tracking by Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security and/or their contractor, the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response, of groups engaged in lawful, peaceful protests: It turns out the homeland security office or its private consultant were doing more than just monitoring law-abiding citizens. They were comparing environmental activists to…
Unraveling Privacy as Corporate Strategy
Scott Peppet writes: The biometric technologies firm Hoyos (previously Global Rainmakers Inc.) recently announced plans to test massive deployment of iris scanners in Leon, Mexico, a city of over a million people. They expect to install thousands of the devices, some capable of picking out fifty people per minute even at regular walking speeds. At first the…
Why did DOJ argue that consumers read and understand privacy policies? Are they ignorant or just unethical?
Over on Slight Paranoia, Chis Soghoian takes the DOJ out to the woodshed for its brief in In the Matter of the Application of the United States of America for an Order Authorizing the Use Of a Pen Register and Trap and Trace Device and Authorizing Release of Subscriber and Other Information. In that brief,…